more wordIQ badness

Sascha Noyes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.legal,gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
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Thanks to [[user:DrBob|DrBob]] for finding this: Apparently wordIQ are not 
only infringing the GFDL and the copyright of wikipedia (or its 
contributers), but are also stealing our bandwidth. Images in the articles 
they have illegally copied from us are loaded from the wikipedia servers. (I 
did a quick test by replacing [[Image:BernardLortie.JPG]] with a modified 
version and having a look at 
http://www.wordiq.com/cgi-bin/knowledge/lookup.cgi?title=Bernard_Lortie)

My question: Is there any legal precedent that such action is illegal? From a 
pragmatic point of view, it is clearly wrong: they are making money with 
their (most probably spyware) toolbar at wikipedia's expense. Or, more 
precisely, Jimbo's expense. How do things like google's image search work. I 
believe they also load images from other's servers. Is there anything 
specified in robots.txt about this?

Best,
Sascha Noyes
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